We talk about CSS, Flexbox, CSS Grids, CSS frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation, Sass and other CSS pre-processors.
Our panel this week:
Alex Denning from https://alexdenning.com/ and https://masterwp.co/
Jackie D’Elia from https://jackiedelia.com/
Sallie Goetsch from https://wpfangirl.com/
Jonathan Denwood from https://www.wp-tonic.com/
John Locke from https://www.lockedowndesign.com
Episode 138 Table of Contents
0:00 Podcast Intros.
1:49 WordPress New Story #1: The Wix Mobile App, A WordPress Joint
8:07 WordPress Story #2: Lessons from failing to sell WordPress themes at the start of the gold rush
Lessons from failing to sell WordPress themes at the start of the gold rush
25:08 Main Topic: All About CSS
25:26 What things do you find frustrating about CSS?
27:18 How has CSS changed over the years?
30:16 Flexbox, and the CSS problems it has solved
34:44 The browsers that tend to have browser quirks in 2016/2017
37:02 Do CSS Frameworks make front-end development easier or harder?
42:31 Jackie’s workflow with Sass and PostCSS.
50:47 John is still old-school with CSS.
51:48 Sallie’s workflow and where she wants to go.
53:40 Email is the final frontier for relatively easy CSS support.
58:47 When will CSS Grid be supported in the majority of browsers?
1:02:39 What are some innovative uses of CSS you have seen this year?
1:07:40 Podcast outros
1:11:03 YouTube bonus content begins.
1:11:10 Who are people you recommend to follow for CSS?
1:22:19 Where does Alex see WordPress going? How is the interest level for WordPress in the UK?
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Links Mentioned During Episode 138:
A Complete Guide to Flexbox
Using CSS Flexible Boxes
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Flexible_Box_Layout/Using_CSS_flexible_boxes
Flexibility: A JavaScript polyfill for Flexbox
https://github.com/jonathantneal/flexibility
Sass: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets
http://sass-lang.com/
Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner
http://gruntjs.com/
Gulp: The streaming build system
http://gulpjs.com/
Animate.css
https://daneden.github.io/animate.css/
A Complete Guide to (CSS) Grid
CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1
https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-css-grid-1-20160929/
Target Safari 7.1 and 8.0 CSS Styles (OSX Yosemite)
https://www.lockedowndesign.com/target-safari-7-1-and-8-0-css-styles-osx-yosemite/
Bootstrap
http://getbootstrap.com/
Foundation by Zurb
http://foundation.zurb.com/
High Performance Responsive Design by Tom Barker (O’Reilly Media)
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033103.do
Genesis Framework
PostCSS: A tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript
http://postcss.org/
node-css-mqpacker
https://github.com/hail2u/node-css-mqpacker
Less
http://lesscss.org/
Codekit
https://codekitapp.com/
PHPStorm IDE
https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/
Grid by Example
http://gridbyexample.com/
Perch: The really little content managemnt system
https://grabaperch.com/
Some Innovative Codepen Examples
Jen Simmons: Revolutionize Your Page: Real Art Direction on the Web
http://jensimmons.com/presentation/revolutionize-your-page-real-art-direction-web
Creating Responsive Shapes With Clip-Path and Breaking Out of the Box
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/05/creating-responsive-shapes-with-clip-path/
CSS Shapes Module Level 1
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-shapes-1/
Carousels Don’t Have to be Complicated
http://mediatemple.net/blog/tips/carousels-dont-have-to-be-complicated/
2015.DConstruct.org
http://2015.dconstruct.org/
BONUS CONTENT
CSS-Tricks / Chris Coyier
https://css-tricks.com/
Nat Eliason
http://www.nateliason.com/
Sara Soueidan
https://sarasoueidan.com/index.html
Rachel Andrew
https://rachelandrew.co.uk/
Brad Frost
A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites
Smashing Magazine
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Designer News
https://www.designernews.co/
Eric Meyer
Tweets by meyerweb
Harry Roberts / CSS Wizardry
http://csswizardry.com/
Nicole Sullivan / Stubbornella
http://www.stubbornella.org/content/
Jonathan Snook
https://snook.ca/
Andy Clarke
Tweets by Malarkey
Andy Budd
Tweets by andybudd
Dan Eden
Tweets by _dte
Jetpack
Jetpack
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